Gerberga of Saxony

Gerberga of Saxony (913-984) was Queen consort of France from 939 to 954 with Louis IV of France.

Biography
Gerberga was born in 913, the daughter of Henry the Fowler and Matilda of Ringelheim. Her first marriage was to Duke Gilbert of Lorraine, but he died in 939 when she was just 26; she remarried to Louis IV of France, and her children would be Lothair of France, Matilda of France, and Charles of Lower Lorraine. In 954, her husband died, and she would serve as regent for her son Lothar; when he came of age, she became an abbess in 959, dying at the Benedictine monastery of Notre Daime in Soissons in 984.